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Hi, Matt here. I’m a law student in Texas, and I’ve been reading the site regularly for a while now.

Thanks for providing such interesting material, both here and at PointofLaw!

I am a biomedical researcher studying HIV at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. I have no legal training- I’m just a law gadfly who enjoys the poignant-yet-humorous stories that Overlawered brings to our attention.

Hello, I am a plaintiff’s attorney in Fairfax, VA. I read your comments with great interest and don’t always disagree
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A disabled Tennessee resident who used to work as a pre-pressman. Going back to school for a liberal arts degree. Running my own blog and ranting about society.

I’m a law student in the making.

I’m a 3L at Tulane, who found this site after reading Walter’s books and was Googling for more.

A lapsed scientist (neuroscience), I’m now moving into patent law. Also have affiliations with the medical world, so med-mal is a subject near and dear to me.

Peter Nordberg here — a plaintiffs’ class action lawyer in Philadelphia, and one of the fellows this site might be complaining about. I visit to have my thoughts provoked and to keep my synapses from lapsing into complacency.

Hi. I am a solo practitioner in a small county in southwestern PA, limiting my practice to adult family and juvenile court. I enjoy reading your posts, but you need more family law topics!

Greg Dwyer, Law/Criminal Justice major at UW-Parkside. President of the Young Conservatives of America. Been reading since 2001 and have literally read every post ever made, including the archives. I am disgusted with the current state of the legal profession and that is why I want to become a law professor to attempt to make better lawyers in the future. Walter, thank you so much for this site and for Point of Law. They have given me so much stuff to work with and argue about.

Hi. I’m Rebecca, an attorney in Boston. I’m currently doing contract work for a downtown firm, still looking for permanent placement.

Hi, I am a paralegal and enjoy reading the stories and comments featured on this page. Maybe some day I will spring for law school and get a license for what I do everyday.

I’m a health/disability actuary who stumbled across the site a couple years ago (and have been visiting both this site and Point of Law regularly since).

I was particularly impressed with the Trial Lawyers Inc. report on Health Care. As someone who has worked extensively with health claims data, I can verify that the actual costs of providing healthcare are soaring as more patients are having more, and costlier, procedures performed than ever before.

I’m a computer programmer. I’ve been reading this site for several years now, and I enjoy the new comments section – I hope it doesn’t get spammed to death.

Keep up the good work.

I’m a defense-side civil practitioner. Used to work for the Corporation Counsel in New York defending tort cases, where I saw some pretty outlandish claims. I encountered Walter Olson’s work when I read “The Litigation Explosion” shortly after my first year of law school. I encourage all first-year law students to supplement their civil procedure class by reading that book.

I’m a physiican, in practice for 20 years. I came across overlawyered in learning about the malpractice/litigation mess in this country.I am in a profession that is heavily regulated and controlled by both govt and private entities. I’m amazed at the lack of oversight of the legal profession.Anything and everything goes! The judges seem to have relinquished their traditional role in our courts.

I’m a computational physicist and blogger who found my way here from debunkers.org. I find the law very human and therefore very fascinating.

I’m a ex-software programmer gone back to school to get a degree in Secondary Education in Mathematics. I’ve been following this website for a couple of years now and enjoy it immensely.

I’m the son of a lawyer, and a computer programmer working on OSS – so the law in general and intellectual property law in particular are my areas of interest. I’ve really enjoyed perusing overlawyered.

I’m 44, partly disabled former x-ray technician. The beginning of every year I do tax work. Other than that I blog and play correspondence chess.

Not sure how I found overlawyered. May have been due to a link at Michelle Malkin’s blog. I visit here regularly. The legal articles and stories posted here sometimes provide good fodder for my knucklehead awards at my blog.

Bill

I live and practice in West Virginia. I tend to be retained to represent civil defendants in cases filed in this state. I’ve read this blog for a while and, given the nature of my practice, will continue to do so.

Jeff

My name is Julian H and I’m a overlawyered addict… is that actionable? 🙂

FBO owner(small aircraft instructin/rental/leasing) and financial software developer. Originally came upon this from Instapundit.

I am an attorney employed by a major commercial insurer. I have been following this site since its inception. Just when I thought the site could never get any better, Ted was invited to post on a regular basis. Had the pleasure of attending an event in Houston where Walter discussed “The Rule of Lawyers”. I believe the work being done by Walter, Ted, the Manhatten Institute and others has, and will continue to have an profound impact on the litigation industry.

Though I have no website or blog, I have made comments or sent items to Overlawyered. I am an Emeritus Professor at the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville (the word order in the title is one that the people who gave me that title used). I have known and worked with some excellent plaintiffs’ lawyers and some excellent civil defense lawyers. My gripe is usually with jurors whose knowledge of how the economic world works is pathetically weak. I do not think highly of people who are generous with other peoples’ money, not their own. Allowing juries to engage in “intersitial legislation” helps relieve citizens of their obligation to learn enough about how constitutional government works; the result is that legislatures sluff off the big problems. We have a good constitutional system provided citizens learn to make it work rather than try to short circuit its structures.

Alito nomination open thread

We haven’t posted much here on the Supreme Court battle (although Point of Law has had a lot) but here’s a thread for regular readers who may wish to opine one way or the other…

Hey… I am a former Electrical/Mechanical Engineer turned Grocery Retailer and have been reading this site regularly for over a year now. Being in retail, I have been the target of a few ‘frivolous’ lawsuits myself and somehow take comfort in reading how others suffer similar fates. I look forward to a time when websites such as this can inflame the public opinion to a point where the legislative system actually pays attention and implements some sort of ‘loser pays’ court system.

Thanks and keep up the great work!

Just another Walter.

I am statistician who works for an environmental consulting firm that specializes in litigation support for defense for toxic tort and product liability litigation. Overlawyered was one of the first blogs I started to read in 2004 and now Overlawyered and PointofLaw are two of the go-to blogs in my Bloglines newsreader.

I’ve been reading this for several years.

Partly for the laffs, partly for the outrage.

I’m Canadian, I work in refugee resettlement, an area with many laffs and outrages of its own. I suppose I am rather to the left of most of your readers, but I find it comforting that all of us can agree on this much at least.